Xiangyang Textile Industry: Outline The "Upward Curve" In Counter Trend

In 2018, Xiangyang's textile and garment industry achieved an output value of 57 billion 820 million yuan, an increase of 11.1% over the same period, an increase of 63.1% over the same period last year, and a 3 percentage point increase in industrial growth.

In the environment of increasing pressure on the textile industry, what makes Xiangyang's textile industry break a new path in the opposite direction and outline a "rising curve"?

Recently, reporters visited a number of textile enterprises in Xiangyang to explore the "Xiangyang model" of the textile industry.

Supporting upstream and downstream industries to promote high quality development

Where does the increase come from?

Yang Daohua, director of the office of light industry and textile industry, introduced that Xiangyang textile industry has a complete industrial chain, its own supporting ability is strong, and the industrial space layout is further optimized, so that the industry presents a stable and steady development trend, achieving the high quality development of the whole industry.

Xiangyang textile industry started in the 60s of last century. After years of development, it has formed a complete industrial chain from lint processing to spinning, weaving, chemical fiber, printing and dyeing, clothing, home textiles and other links. It has become one of Xiangyang's most influential industries in the whole province and even the whole country.

Because of this, the textile industry in Xiangyang can only maintain an upward trend in quality and efficiency through the textile industry downturn in recent years.

Last year, the output value of the spinning and weaving industry was 46 billion 760 million yuan, the output value of clothing and apparel industry was 6 billion 720 million yuan, and the output value of chemical fiber manufacturing industry was 2 billion 560 million yuan, up 12.3%, 10.5% and 6.6%, respectively.

In March 19th, the reporter came to the textile and garment industrial park located in Xiangzhou District, and saw a large scale, well-developed infrastructure and flourishing production park. All the enterprises in the park, mainly spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, home textiles, were all busy.

According to reports, Xiangyang has built two major industrial parks, namely, the textile and garment industrial park, the city's chemical fiber textile industrial park, and the three characteristics of home textile, chemical fiber and printing and dyeing.

At the same time, Xiangyang has also formed four major textile industrial clusters, namely Jujube, Yicheng, Laohekou and Gucheng, and has truly realized the group development of the textile industry in the whole city.

It is learnt that with the help of Xiangyang's own textile industry chain, the textile industry in the whole city will focus on breaking the "bottleneck" of printing and dyeing during the "13th Five-Year" period, and strive to make the three major terminals of household textiles, industrial textile products and branded garments, and promote the pformation of the textile industry to high-end, intelligent and green industries.

Intelligent pformation stimulates new advantages of traditional industries

In March 20th, in the production workshop of Xiangyang Heavenly King clothing Limited by Share Ltd in Nanzhang, the reporter saw that 16 digital hanging garment production lines were working methodically.

Compared with traditional baling production, the clothing hanging production system hangs all the pieces of clothing on the clothes rack, and automatically pfers all the positions between the stations according to the process layout, and is orderly and precise in order to avoid the chaotic, disorderly and blocking situation of the traditional production line.

Wang Shanguo, chairman of the Xiangyang Heavenly King clothing Limited by Share Ltd, introduced that the intelligent production line introduced through technical pformation can be pferred to the next process through the fixed speed product line pfer. Once the process is completed, the production rhythm will be accelerated, and the product will be put out immediately. Even people's "tailoring" has realized computerized operation, and the production cycle has been greatly shortened, thus greatly improving the production efficiency.

The outstanding performance of the digital hanging production system has provided strong support for the upgrading of the product and technology of Tian Wang clothing. The company's production has gradually changed from rough machining to fine processing, and the product has also changed from low grade to high grade.

In 2018, the sales revenue of heavenly king clothing reached 300 million yuan, an increase of 20% compared to the same period last year, paying about 12000000 yuan in profits and taxes, an increase of 20% over the same period last year.

Textile enterprises in Xiangyang have not only tasted the sweetness of their clothes through technological pformation, intelligent pformation and new technology introduction.

Jihua 3542 Textile Co., Ltd., with its strong R & D capability, has successfully entered the production and sales system of the seat fabric and seat cover of the motor car. Shenglong Plant Fiber Co., Ltd. has built the first high elastic plant fiber new material project in the province. Its products occupy 50% of the market in the domestic high elasticity and environmental protection brown mattress market, and become the supporting enterprises of Dongfeng company, Beiqi Futian, Changchun FAW, Shaanxi Auto heavy truck and Geely company.

"Through technological pformation, the production efficiency and product quality of enterprises have been continuously improved, and the traditional textile industry has achieved a magnificent turn in pformation and upgrading, thus achieving the steady and steady development trend of Xiangyang's textile industry."

Yang Daohua said that in 2018, the first batch of hundreds of digital production lines, digital workshops, intelligent factories and machine substitutions demonstration enterprises established by the Municipal Bureau of economic and Trade Bureau had reached 14 enterprises.

In the context of rising labor costs, Xiangyang's textile industry is stepping up a road of Sustainable Textile Ecology through upgrading the digitalization and intellectualization level of textile equipment, and takes the lead in the development of high quality.

Innovation does not stop injecting momentum into enterprise development

The sustained vitality of the industrial economy stems from continuous product innovation, which is most vividly reflected in the development of Xiangyang's textile industry.

In 2018, Ji Hua 3542 took advantage of the market by focusing on new materials, new processes and new technologies. The company's recycled polyester cotton blended products achieved sales income of about 26000000 yuan, and Tianzhu fine denier polyester products sold for about 15000000 yuan. Cotton sticky nylon products were sold for about 8000000 yuan, with an average gross profit margin of more than 19%.

Wang Ping, vice president of Jihua 3542 Research Institute, said that innovation is the driving force for the survival and development of enterprises. In the development of many years, China 3542 has formed its own set of innovative mechanisms and has carried out unswervingly.

"Last year, we successfully produced some new bamboo fiber products, such as bamboo fiber, Tianzhu modle and original bamboo fiber, antibacterial and anti mite products, such as silver ion antibacterial fiber, and synthetic cotton, such as antibacterial cotton and so on, with 68 new products, including high strength, fire resistance, flame retardancy and antistatic, and some new products have achieved mass production."

Not only in China's 3542, but last year's textile industry in Xiangyang focused on advancing the structural reform of supply side, focusing on increasing variety, quality and product innovation, and made significant progress in industry development.

Among them, Gucheng county established the first demonstration area of textile and clothing product quality improvement in the province, and paid close attention to product innovation and quality improvement, and actively built high-end garment and fabric production base. The Hubei Gold Ring Green Fiber Co., Ltd. invested 2 billion 385 million yuan, introduced advanced technology in Austria, and built a production line of green biological cellulose fiber (Tencel) with an annual output of 100 thousand tons. The project started smoothly in September last year, and after completion of the project, it will fill the blank of the whole province.

At the same time, the company constantly adjusts its product mix, improves product quality and optimizes product performance, so that the company can achieve sales income of 730 million yuan in 2018, pay taxes of 42 million 730 thousand yuan, earn foreign exchange earnings of 33 million 50 thousand yuan, and make a profit of 25 million 200 thousand yuan.

Yang Daohua told reporters that in recent years, Xiangyang textile enterprises have gradually enhanced their awareness of innovation, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Through technological innovation, improving product kinetic energy and enriching product categories, the whole industry structure has been continuously optimized, and the role of the new growth pole of the industry has become increasingly prominent. The overall variety richness, quality satisfaction and brand recognition of Xiangyang textile industry have been greatly improved, and it has gone out of a road of high quality development with Xiangyang's own characteristics.